Una nueva rana nodriza de los bosques de niebla asociados a la cuenca del Orinoco de Colombia

Abstract

Se describe una nueva especie de rana nodriza proveniente de las estribaciones andinas en el departamento de Boyacá y asociada a la cuenca del río Orinoco en Colombia. Esta especie posee una similitud morfológica con Hyloxalus picachos que habita en las estribaciones andinas en el departamento de Caquetá, pero difiere de esta porque la banda lateral oblicua se extiende hasta el rostro y por su patrón cromático del iris en vida. Se describe el cambio ontogénico de sus estados larvales junto con sus vocalizaciones que están compuestas por notas simples, con una tasa de vocalización de 124 notas por minuto y con estructura espectral que consiste en 5 armónicos con una frecuencia dominante entre 4213,3-5828,2 Hz. Con la descripción de esta nueva especie se reconocen 23 especies para este género en Colombia.

Treefrog Diversity in the Neotropics: Phylogenetic Relationships of Scinaxini (Anura: Hylidae: Hylinae)

“…Our analyses showed that several specimens misidentified as Scinax x-signatus were S. eurydice, S. ruber, S. similis , or S. fuscovarius . Several specimens from Colombia and central-west Venezuela to which the name S. x-signatus has been applied (Rivero, 1969; Gorzula and Señaris, 1999; Acosta-Galvis, 2000; Lynch, 2006b; Ugueto and Rivas-Fuenmayor, 2010) belong to a distinct lineage that is only distantly related to S. x-signatus . That lineage here named Scinax sp.…”

Distribution Update, Advertisement Call, and Phylogenetic Position of the Malvasá Rocket Frog, Hyloxalus pinguis (Anura: Dendrobatidae)

“…Advertisement calls have been described for 24 of the 61 described species of Hyloxalus, including H. abditaurantius (Silverstone, 1975) (Grant and Castro, 1998), H. arliensis (Acosta-Galvis et al, 2020), H. awa (Coloma, 1995), H. azureiventris (Lötters and Kneller, 2000), H. bocagei Jiménez de la Espada, 1870 (Páez-Vacas et al, 2010), H. elachyhistus (Edwards, 1971) (Koch et al, 2011), H. fascianigrus (Grant and Castro, 1998), H. felixcoperari Acosta-Galvis and Vargas-Ramírez, 2018, H. italoi Páez-Vacas et al, 2010, H. jacobuspetersi (Coloma, 1995), H. maculosus (Rivero, 1991) (Páez-Vacas et al, 2010), H. mystax (Duellman and Simmons, 1988) (Almendáriz and Batallas, 2011), H. nexipus (Frost, 1986) (Coloma, 1995), H. patitae (Lötters et al, 2003b), H. pulchellus (Coloma, 1995), H. sanctamariensis Acosta-Galvis and Pinzón, 2018, H. sauli (Edwards, 1974) (Páez-Vacas et al, 2010), H. subpunctatus (Cope, 1899) (Fandiño et al, 1997; Navas and Bevier, 2001), H. toachi (Coloma, 1995) (Quiguango-Ubillús and Coloma, 2008), H. vergeli Hellmich, 1940 (Mendoza-Henao et al, 2022), H. vertebralis (Coloma, 1995), and H. yasuni Páez-Vacas et al, 2010.…”

“…In Colombia, the genus comprises 26 species, with the highest species richness found in Andean cloud forests, where 23 species are distributed (Acosta-Galvis et al, 2020; Anganoy-Criollo et al, 2022). Among these, 13 species have been reported in the Cordillera Oriental, 11 in the Cordillera Central (including the Colombian Massif), and 6 species in the Cordillera Occidental (Acosta-Galvis and Pinzón, 2018; Acosta-Galvis and Vargas-Ramírez, 2018; Acosta-Galvis et al, 2020; Anganoy-Criollo et al, 2022). Most of these species inhabit moderate elevations (16 species within the elevational range of 1,000–2,000 m) and the lowest diversity occurs at elevations above 3,000 m (2 species; Bernal and Lynch, 2008; Acosta-Galvis et al, 2020; Anganoy-Criollo et al, 2022).…”

“…To date, only 37 Hyloxalus species have been included in phylogenetic analyses (Vences et al, 2000; Vences et al, 2003; Grant et al, 2006, 2017; Páez-Vacas et al, 2010; Pyron and Wiens, 2011; Muñoz-Ortiz et al, 2015; Acosta-Galvis and Vargas-Ramírez, 2018; Acosta-Galvis et al, 2020; Anganoy-Criollo et al, 2022), and 13 species from Colombia lack associated genetic data (Acosta-Galvis and Pinzón, 2018). Furthermore, advertisement calls have been described for only 24 species, with the most commonly measured parameters being note duration (24 species), dominant frequency (24 species), notes per call (20 species), inter-note interval (19 species), fundamental frequency (18 species), call duration (15 species), and notes per minute (8 species; Silverstone, 1975; Coloma, 1995; Fandiño et al, 1997; Grant and Castro, 1998; Lötters and Kneller, 2000; Quiguango-Ubillús and Coloma, 2008; Páez-Vacas et al, 2010; Koch et al, 2011; Acosta-Galvis and Pinzón, 2018; Acosta-Galvis and Vargas-Ramírez, 2018; Acosta-Galvis et al, 2020; Mendoza-Henao et al, 2022).…”

Current State of Knowledge of Páramo Amphibians in Colombia: Spatio Temporal Trends and Information Gaps to Be Strengthened for Effective Conservation

“…4) A deep search on the digital repositories of the Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt -IAvH (2019) (until 2021) and the book series "Colombia Diversidad Biótica" (Rangel-Ch, 2019). 5) We consolidate a taxonomic list of Páramo species reported in the scientific literature (Acosta-Galvis, 2000, Ardila-Robayo & Acosta-Galvis, 2000Lynch & Suárez, 2002;Bernal & Lynch, 2008;Acosta-Galvis, 2015;Buitrago-González et al, 2016;Meza-Joya & Torres, 2016) We generated a database and manually removed duplicates for a total of 882 documents. For each of these documents, the abstract, methods, study area, results, and supplementary material were read following the PRISMA protocol (Liberati et al, 2009;Shamseer et al, 2015), to ensure that all eligible documents met at least one of the following inclusion criteria: 1) It includes studies in ecosystems above 2700 m in Colombia; 2) It presents data on species reported in the taxonomic list compiled from the scientific literature (search strategy 5), and available records (search strategy 6); and 3) Study areas coincide spatially with some Páramo complex.…”